Gomes' Pampas Snake
Rodriguesophis iglesiasi (Gomes, 1915)
Also calledCobra corredeira dos campos (por) · Cobra-Corredeira (por) · Falsa-Coral (por)
First described in: Gomes, J. F. Contribuição para o conhecimento dos ophidios do Brasil. 1. Descrição de quatro especies novas e um novo Gênero de opisthóglyphos. 2. Ophidios do Museu Rocha (Ceará).
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 336 A). Restricted to the northeastern portion of the Cerrado and western portion of the Caatinga (Plt. 336 A) at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 336 B). Observed in the field in savanna and grassland on sandy soil (Recoder and Nogueira, 2007, Recoder et al., 2011).
Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna
Rodriguesophis iglesiasi (Gomes 1915) Gomes 1915
Rodriguesophis iglesiasi (Gomes, 1915) (Figs. 18.3 and 31.1) Recorded in sparse localities in the states of Piauí and Bahia, including the São Francisco River dunes, and Cerrado-Caatinga contact areas. All records are in low altitudes (less than 500 m elevation). It is also recorded in the northeastern portion of the Cerrado region (Nogueira et al. 2010, 2011), close to the Caatinga, mostly in areas covered by sparse savannas on sandy soils (Recoder et al. 2011), similar to sandy areas inside the Caatinga. It has fossorial and psammophylous habits, is diurnal and nocturnal, and feeds on lizards (Rodrigues 1993).
Diversity, natural history, and geographic distribution of snakes in the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7370154.